SierraScape February - September 2012
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by Gloria Broderick
Save the Confluence Chair

We cordially invite you to join us in planning the 2012 Confluence Trash Bash Event to be held on March 24th at the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge and Creve Coeur Park. This event would not be possible without your help!

There are meetings at Trailnet to discuss improvements from previous years, sites that are in need of a clean-up, how to recruit volunteers, and other planning steps to make this event a great success. We hope that you will consider joining us in our fight to stop water pollution!

Confirmations and questions can be sent to Trash Bash Coordinator, Gloria Broderick, at gloriavern@sbcglobal.net or 314-972-3376.

What is Trash Bash? The annual Confluence Trash Bash is a large scale river clean-up event to promote cleaner waterways and to encourage the community to work together to make the St. Louis area a better place to live. Groups of volunteers will depart from two locations, the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge and Creve Coeur Park, to clean local streams & neighborhoods. All groups will then return to their starting location for a free lunch and a celebration complete with Trash Artists who will be turning trash into art. Prizes will be awarded for the most interesting trash finds, and all participants will receive a free t-shirt. In the last 3 years alone, The Confluence Trash Bash has involved over 1,606 volunteers and has picked up over 61 tons of trash and scrap out of streams and neighborhoods! We are very pleased to announce that the 2011 Confluence Trash Bash was the recipient of the Missouri Attorney General's Justice Award for Environmental Protection. We are eager to make 2012 just as successful. We hope that you will join us in making a difference! Visit www.confluencegreenway.org/trashbash.php for more info or to register.